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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khalid Oladeji Bello, University of Louisville; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University ; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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mainly involved in identifying the research questions for the projectsand making decisions about how the results of the research-focused projects will beimplemented. This paper presents a replication of a model focused on university-communitycollaboration, student engagement and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)attraction and retention using three research-focused projects addressing community needs. Thethree projects are (1) empathic design project aimed at improving quality greenspaces andpedestrian streetscape experience, (2) food justice project to study the disparities in food accessbetween local regions, and (3) analyzing water quality in a local creek. The projects provided aunique opportunity for students to directly

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hannah Cooke, University of Connecticut; Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Chester Arnold; Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut; Byung-Yeol Park, University of Connecticut; Peter C. Diplock

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-University Relationships in Environmental Engineering Service-Learning Courses: Social Network Vectors and Modalities of CommunicationIntroduction This work offers an initial and essential exploration of the ways in which universities andcommunities become connected in service-learning programs. Since numerous studies havefound that service learning offers an array of benefits to undergraduate students [1], [2], it isequally important to consider perspectives of the partnering communities. Specifically, in somecontexts, university-community partnerships, both generally and service-learning programs inparticular, are exploitative due to the power imbalance caused by the “concentration of powerand knowledge” of universities [3]. In this

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Connor Becerril; Joanna D. Kinsey, Quinnipiac University; Courtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac University; John E. Greenleaf, P.E., Quinnipiac University; Kimberly DiGiovanni, Quinnipiac University

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research experience and benefit for community membersaddressing their water quality concerns.BackgroundCommunity-university-partnershipsCommunity-university partnerships are collaborations between communities and universities toachieve shared goals through community-engaged scholarship [1] [2, pp. 463–469]. Key tenantsof community-university partnerships and community-based research involve genuinereciprocity, mutual benefit for communities and participating students [1], building connectionswithin and between organizations [3, Vol. 4], generation of knowledge to meet a communityidentified need, involving the community throughout, from problem definition to resultsdissemination [4, pp. 412–428] and funding [3, Vol. 4].Community-university

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Community Engagement Division 1 - Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sydney Donohue, University of New Mexico; Anjali Mulchandani, University of New Mexico

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data were collected throughwritten responses to questions on specific positive or negative student experiences and attitudes.Four main outreach trends emerged: 1) Students enjoy attending outreach events and find ithelpful to themselves and to society; 2) Attending events leads students to want to participate inmore; 3) Lack of time is by far the top hinderance; 4) Students are motivated by mentor support.Study findings suggest three possible steps to implementing a targeted strategy for broaderimpact student outreach that aligns with student desires at university research centers: 1) Choiceof outreach events should emphasize the contribution to society; 2) Outreach recruitment shouldemphasize skills students will gain; 3) Faculty mentors

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Environmental Health Literacy to Raise Awareness of Antibiotic Resistance Daniel B, Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409AbstractThe process of how to engage with communities (i.e., community engagement) is animportant skill for engineers to acquire, and the skill is well suited to experientiallearning (i.e., learning through doing). To educate engineers to perform communityengagement, a module was developed and incorporated as part of three differentengineering courses, namely: 1) science, technology, engineering, art, and math(STEAM) diplomacy (dual-level graduate and undergraduate, elective); 2) public

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyunjung Ji, The University of Alabama; Sally Grace Shettled, The University of Alabama; Mark Allen Mueller, The University of Alabama; Colby Nicole Putman, The University of Alabama; Amelia Salazar, Sam Houston State University; Laurel Jane Holmes MPH, Energy Alabama; Hyun Jin Kim, The University of Alabama

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construction, engineering,manufacturing, etc. by 2030 [1]. However, as clean energy job opportunities increase, the gapbetween available jobs and qualified workers grows. Education in the U.S. does not emphasizethe clean energy or environmentally friendly behavior, so many students do not see these jobs asa potential career path or even know they exist.Education plays a critical role in helping the United Nations reach its Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) [2]. Environmental education begins with giving children access and opportunitiesto build a relationship with nature, learn about environmental issues and the need for cleanenergy, develop important skills for the clean energy workforce, and inform them of the jobs andcareer paths in clean energy

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Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Ashish Dahiya, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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. Partnerships may develop betweencommunities, academia, organizations, or with any combination of these. Reciprocity incollaborative partnerships implies mutual respect, trust, benefit-sharing, and growth [1].Traditionally, groups that are considered to have more resources are allotted a higher degree ofpower, leading to non-reciprocal collaborations. Often driven by historical colonial relations, thesedisparities can have harmful results such as uneven stakeholder benefits, unidirectionality, andperpetuating oversimplified stereotypes, and can continue without critique due to hiddenassumptions of prestige in resources despite evidence to the contrary. Partnership imbalances canyield inequities, despite good intentions. To achieve mutual benefits, it’s

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roneisha Wynette Worthy, Kennesaw State University; Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University

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students to attend the engineering program, as well as creating anenvironment that is welcoming and supportive of diversity, has caused our numbers to shiftgreatly from women accounting for only 14% of our engineering program population in 2020 towomen making up 21% in 2022 [1]. With over 50% of our engineering students identifying asnon-white, there is a lot to celebrate but there is still more work to do. When considering theintersectionality with race, we discovered that African American women engineering studentscomprised only 4% of the college and Hispanic women engineering students comprised just 3%.Further analysis revealed that out of the nearly 800 degrees awarded in 2022, not even 50 wereawarded to these demographics. Women accounted for

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Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Irma Livier De Regil Sanchez, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Guadalajara, Mexico

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: Association of International Educators, and funded by ExxonMobil Corporation. The100,000 Strong in the Americas program is an education initiative created “to increase the annualnumber of U.S. students studying in Latin America and the Caribbean to 100,000 and bring100,000 students to the United States by 2020.” [1]. It does this by fostering new partnershipsamong higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United States and the rest of the WesternHemisphere in student exchange and training programs with focus given to “buildinginstitutional capacity, increasing student mobility, and enhancing regional educationcooperation” [1].The objective of the initial partnership activities was to offer an innovative study abroadopportunity to American students

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Community Engagement Division 4 - Cultivating Engineering Excellence through Mentorship and Humanitarian Engineering

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; Amelia Elizabeth Cook, Lipscomb University; Lewis Ngwenya, Lipscomb University; Hannah Grace Duke, Lipscomb University

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across the sub-groups. Data from two students who participatedin the questionnaire before and after participating in a humanitarian engineering project is alsopresented. From these results, the authors conclude that the sampling methods may have had animpact on the mixed significance and that further qualitative methods may be appropriate fordeeper study. For future work, the project team will conduct interviews with selected participantstoward building a model for creating inclusive engineers through humanitarian engineeringprojects.Background:This paper details part of the work of an ongoing project previously described in [1] and [2]. Theproject’s objective is to study the impact of humanitarian engineering projects (HEPs) onprofessional

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Selvin Yovani Tobar; Bara Maisara Zalloum; Anna N. Le; Yessenia Nicacio-Rosales; Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College- One of the City Colleges of Chicago

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and implement practices that develop Community of Practice (CoP), Professional Identity, and Self-Efficacy to increase diversity in Engineering and Computer Science and to streamline transfer from community colleges to 4-year institutions ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engagement in Practice: Strengthening Student’s STEM Identity Through ServiceI. INTRODUCTIONVolunteering offers participants the opportunity to develop their social network and connectionwith the local community. Volunteering can make adolescents more adept at connecting withsocial groups outside of their norm [1], increase their civic engagement [1], and increase theiracademic

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session - Exploring the Transformative Power of Service, Engagement, and Research

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Daniel Lapsley, University of Notre Dame

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, and examined a community-engaged STEM learning environment in adeindustrialized city in Indiana. Drawing on principles from academic engaged learning andinnovation ecosystems [1-5], the pilot integrated partners across a diversity of higher educationinstitutions, high schools, local government, and community organizations to developcommunity-identified, authentic projects and tailored programming to implement internships thatsupport STEM attraction and retention for underrepresented groups in engineering and science aswell as improving the quality of life in these communities. As such, it applied what weunderstand about persistence in STEM [6-8] by providing opportunities for early research andactive learning in the community. The original

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel A Acuña, George Mason University; Nathalia Peixoto, George Mason University; Holly Matto, George Mason University; Siddhartha Sikdar, George Mason University

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projectsIntroductionEngineering students will often complete design projects to solve a problem for an identifiedpopulation in need, resulting in an engineered product such as a novel medical device or newassistive technology [1]. However, adequately addressing major societal problems (e.g., opioidaddiction, mental health disorders, physical disability, etc.) will require more than just anengineered product or device, it will require solutions that span individual, community, andsocietal systems across many different disciplines [2]. The next generation of leaders chargedwith addressing these complex challenges must know how to work across traditional academicdisciplinary boundaries and meaningfully engage with stakeholder individuals, communities, andpolicymakers [3

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

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community engagement programs for understanding the value propositionfor each stakeholder group. Such investigations can help researchers and practitioners betteroptimize programs to more closely meet their full potential.IntroductionLeading institutions in engineering education have been focusing on integrating experientiallearning into the undergraduate experience in recent years [1], which is a pedagogy that involveseducators purposefully engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection [2]. Onesubset of the experiential learning approach is community-engaged learning, which is intended toincorporate the five elements of engagement, academic connection, reciprocal partnerships, mutuallearning, and reflection [3]. In engineering

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

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potential funding is important incase one source of funding ends.K-12 Outreach Program ExamplesThis paper highlights six K-12 outreach programs that educate students about STEM disciplines.The outreach programs are facilitated by undergraduate programs at three higher educationinstitutions and one STEM related employer. Institutional context, an overview of each program,a description of the program’s curriculum and learning goals, program outcomes, and challengesencountered are discussed for each outreach program.Programs #1 and #2Institutional ContextElon University is a selective, mid-sized private university known for engaged undergraduateinstruction and experiential learning. The curriculum is grounded in the traditional liberal artsand

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Mateo Rojas; Casey Gibson, National Academy of Engineering; Jaime Elizabeth Styer, Colorado School of Mines; Sofia Lara Schlezak, Colorado School of Mines

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differentinstitutions.As described in [1], US graduate engineering research remains focused on preparing students fora shrinking pool of academic jobs and most students are dissatisfied by the lack of socialrelevance of their research. An article detailing the state of graduate education points out, “mostgraduate programs will, in fact, fail to deliver the training that students desire and societydesperately needs. Graduate training remains focused on preparing students to addressdisciplinary knowledge gaps valued in a shrinking pool of faculty positions. While we invitestudents to apply for degrees based on their motivations to change the world, once they arrive,we do not prepare them to be successful change-makers. Current students report beingdiscouraged from

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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redlinedcommunities today.Redlining occurred in most American citiesincluding Omaha, Nebraska. The 1935 OmahaHome Owner Loan Corporation map (Figure 1)designated neighborhoods in North and SouthOmaha as yellow and red, while neighborhoodsin West Omaha are designated green.The topic of redlining was introduced in a seriesof introductory courses to help studentsunderstand from of the beginning of theireducation as a civil engineer about both positiveand negative consequences to society that civil Figure 1. Redlined map of Omaha, Nebraskaengineers can have. We believed this was an (Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 1935)important topic to introduce early in

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Smith, NASA; Zachary T. G. Pirtle, NASA

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scholarly disciplines to participate in a dialogue on ethical considerations for Artemis and theMoon to Mars initiative. At this event, participants identified a set of challenges in engaging theethical and social implications of these missions. This paper seeks to further explore thoseconcepts from the workshop report and provide insights on how to discuss the designimplications of engineering leadership decisions and to elicit meaningful engagement on thesetopics. This analysis can inform future research and educational approaches and help ethics andsocial science researchers to engage engineering and project leaders in constructive dialogue. 1. IntroductionThe engineering education research community has developed a broad swathe of case

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci

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. Toooften, educational institutions uphold hegemonic norms and the status quo. Howard et al.describe that “education has reinforced structures of disadvantage rather than challenging suchstructures,” adding that “education appears to maintain rather than change broad social andeconomic structures” [1, p. 2]. Carpini and Keeter describe service learning as “a collaborativeeffort to address a community problem” [2, p. 635]. Building off of Gervasoni et al.’s [1] andCarpini and Keeter’s [2] social justice lens—though they use the language of service learning—we have chosen the term community engagement rather than service learning to emphasize themutual benefit of the community and the students and to avoid the more deficit-basedperspective that

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Rush Leeker, University of Colorado Boulder; Marlene Sulema Palomar, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane, University of Colorado Boulder

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tinkering with theory for eco-social justice. Canadian Journal of 1 Participatory Research: Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 18, 187-192. Metro-Roland, D. (2015). Knowledge, power, and care of the self: The Facilitates deeper engagement and investment

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Heikkinen Dodson, Lipscomb University; René Marie Rosalie Marius, Lipscomb University; Mark Sedek, Lipscomb University

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design andrevision as well as the iterative participant selection process. As next steps, the research teamwill be interviewing a mixture of engineering students and alumni from Lipscomb University.From these interviews, the team will build a model which may be utilized by other engineeringorganizations to create inclusive engineers and increase diverse representation in the field.Background:This paper is part of a larger study on the impact of humanitarian engineering projects on studentprofessional formation and views of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) [1-3]. The studybuilds on a wealth of research around the lack of diversity in engineering [4-7] and the positiveimpacts of service learning in higher education [8]. Various programs have

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anindya Debnath, University of Arkansas; Suman Kumar Mitra, University of Arkansas

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Fort Smith, Arkansas 3 Anindya Kishore Debnath1, Suman Kumar Mitra2 4 5 1. PhD Student, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas-72701, 6 Email: akdebnat@uark.edu 7 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, 4190 Bell Engineering 8 Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, Email: skmitra@uark.edu 910 1. INTRODUCTION11 Affordable-accessible housing for working families is increasingly scarce in the U.S., in12 particular for small and mid-sized cities in rural areas. As many small and mid-sized cities offer13 only limited public transportation options, low-income residents living in those areas may14 struggle to access jobs

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Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

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HumanitarianEngineering as potentially an effective pedagogical process to prepare engineers to addresssustainability related challenges. 1IntroductionThe most urgent global sustainable development challenges—from adapting to climate change tocreating affordable housing to providing safe and accessible water—are complex problemswithout clear boundaries. Because they defy simple resolution, such challenges have come to beknown as wicked problems [1]. One of the difficulties of addressing wicked problems is theunderlying complexity that stems from fundamental disagreements among stakeholdersconcerning both the root of the problems and best potential approaches to tackling them.Addressing such challenges requires

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Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo

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: djaramil@fau.edu Abstract—In preparation for the upcoming FAU Hack-a-Thon, I. I NTRODUCTIONwe have implemented extensive support structures to ensurethat all participating teams are thoroughly prepared for the For the past six years, the Hack-a-Thons [1] at Florida At-competition. This preparation includes the provision of online lantic University (FAU) have offered Outcome-Based Learningsupport from a variety of programming experts from IBM andexperienced Hack-a-Thon participants. This support is accessible opportunities, enabling participants to rapidly develop their24/7 in the three weeks leading up to the event, aimed at ensuring knowledge and skills within a supportive setting

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Micaha Dean Hughes, North Carolina State University; Aaron Arenas, North Carolina State University; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University; Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University

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partners toward the development of new partnerships, as well asa hopeful demonstration of how SUCCs can shift the mindset of participants to potentially reducerural flight.Keywords: school-university-community collaboration, rural cultural wealth, research-practicepartnership, community engagement, rural engineering education, middle grades educationIntroductionRural flight or rural outmigration is a commonly-referenced phenomenon in sociology and ruraleducation literature. The term refers to the outmigration of people from rural areas to urban orsuburban areas, specifically for the purpose of finding better economic opportunities, improved livingconditions, and access to amenities [1], [2]. People from rural spaces may choose to leave

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Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emma Sophie Stine, University of Colorado Boulder; Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado Boulder

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Humanitarian Engineering (HE) field are‬ ‭increasingly interested in addressing the systemic causes of infrastructure service disparities.‬ ‭Humanitarian Engineering (HE) programs often have missions that center on the systemic causes‬ ‭of inequality, such as training graduate engineers to “concern with the unequal and unjust‬ ‭distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and‬ ‭shelter, and (who) place emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions toward‬ ‭increasing equitable access to reliable services''‬‭[1]‬‭. Further, HE scholars have encouraged HE‬ ‭students and faculty to focus their efforts on understanding and dismantling the systems that‬

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Engineering Empowered Communities: Place-Based Community Engaged Learning

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Alvarez Pino, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Fouad H. Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Andrew J. Sullivan, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mona N Fouad, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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. Theultimate goal is for this initiative to serve as a model and inspiration for universities andcommunities alike, highlighting the transformative power of collaboration between highereducation institutions, industry, and community partners to drive meaningful improvements inour communities, fostering growth, innovation, and social well-being.1. IntroductionOverview of Community Engagement in Engineering EducationIn recent years, the field of community engagement in engineering education has been growing,reflecting a shift towards a more holistic approach that extends beyond theoretical knowledge.Building sustainable and resilient communities is a core purpose of civil engineering andeffectively engaging with communities is vital. Such engagement is

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Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Lupita D Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University

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their needs.BackgroundThere is a long history of engagement of academics with communities [1-4]. Historically someof this work was termed service-learning (SL) where the goal was for students to reapeducational benefits from credit-bearing activities through a process of reflecting on their work,while community partners also benefited from the collaboration. SL work often faced challengeswith equitable benefits and power sharing. SL in engineering is now often being framed underthe larger umbrella of community engagement (CE). CE is a broader idea that encompassescommunity partnerships in co-curricular activities (such as Engineers Without Borders studentchapters). CE work can also be focused on scholarship and research, termed CommunityEngaged

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Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park; Paige E. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park; Rebecca Kenemuth

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engineering experiences that involvemaking and testing solutions.A fundamental aspect of GOAL programming is the inclusion of culminating events whereinmultiple classrooms come together for challenges and competitions. These events motivateconnectedness to content and offer opportunities for discussion and collaborative design. Eventsare used to build connections to UMD and include information sessions regarding pathways foradmissions and transfer, familiarizing students with pathways toward higher education.Figure 1 illustrates the GOAL activities over the past three years. Over 5000 kits have beendistributed to middle school (MS) and high school (HS) students. The implementation has beenprimarily through two neighboring school districts, and those

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG) Poster Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Horatio Haller; Jimmy Peralta; Fatimah Musa; Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago

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Community ServiceI. INTRODUCTION Volunteering means any activity in which time is given freely to benefit another person,group or organization [1]. Engaging in volunteering, among adolescents, has been shown tocorrelate with enhanced social skills which enables them to connect with students of allbackgrounds and interests [2]. Volunteerism has also been linked to increased civic engagement[2], improved academic aptitude [3], as well as enhanced self-esteem and happiness in adults [4].Additionally, participating in volunteering activities related to one’s degree has shown to giveparticipants practical and applicable experiences that can benefit their career prospects [5].Persistence in and completion of baccalaureate STEM degrees has been shown to